Book review: Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty: Forever king...

The Scotsman;  April 29, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty by...Enlightenment revolutionary. His name was Adam Smith, founder of the equally subversive science...mini-industry in revisionist accounts of Adam Smith. The best is Professor Gavin Kennedy...

Adam Smith sculpture to tower over Royal Mile

Evening News - Scotland;  September 26, 2007 ;     445 words ......modern thinking. A towering statue of Adam Smith - the Scottish pioneer of economics...Cross. Dr Eamonn Butler, director of the Adam Smith Institute, the authoritative research...fantastic site. It used to be a market and Adam Smith is the father of the marketplace, so...

Who was Adam Smith, and does he deserve to be on our banknotes? ; The big...

The Independent - London;  October 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Why is Adam Smith in the news? The Governor of the Bank...King, has announced that a portrait of Adam Smith will feature on a redesigned [pound...most often counterfeited. So who was Adam Smith and what did he do to deserve this recognition...

Turning to Adam Smith. (publications on life and works of political...

Atlantic Economic Journal;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Ian Simpson Ross's long-awaited Life of Adam Smith (being the closing step of the Oxford...edition of the works and correspondence of Adam Smith) affords the proper opportunity for some...amount of renewed attention to which Adam Smith has been subjected through the last 20-o...

Don't blame Adam Smith for all this nonsense ; EDITORIAL & OPINION

The Independent - London;  March 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Adam Smith, Margaret Thatcher's favourite economist...of us know him mostly because of the Adam Smith Institute which, in the 1980s, was always...stories like: "A new report from the Adam Smith Institute has discovered babies are lame-du...

Obituary: Janet Adam Smith

The Independent - London;  September 13, 1999 ;     700+ words ......there seemed to be nothing at which Janet Adam Smith did not shine. And she shone with an...Her father, the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith, had been Principal of Aberdeen University...review books for The Listener. Janet Adam Smith had been properly instructed in mountaineering...

Monumental profits; Adam Smith.(The economist's house is on the market)

The Economist (US);  March 15, 2008 ;     477 words ......council put on the market the house where Adam Smith spent his last 12 years, from 1778 until...the Earls of Panmure and the home of Adam Smith. His grave just off the High Street was...plaques. The town also hosts an annual Adam Smith lecture, given in recent years, thanks...

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) and William F. Aldinger III,...

PR Newswire;  February 4, 2004 ;     664 words ......Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Friends of Adam Smith (FOAS) today announced the winners of the 2004 Adam Smith Awards: U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison...accept their awards at the fifth annual Adam Smith Awards Dinner, April 27, 2004 at 6:00...

Fife snubs Adam Smith on new sign

The Scotsman;  June 8, 1998 ;     450 words ......birthplace of the philosopher and economist Adam Smith. Each year hundreds of tourists visit...Welcome to Kirkcaldy - The birthplace of Adam Smith". Now they read: "Kirkcaldy - Twin Town...world because of Kirkcaldy's links with Adam Smith. It is disgraceful that his name has...

Adam Smith and Greed

Journal of Private Enterprise;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......in the 20th century. Allegedly it is Adam Smith who provides this new dignity to greed...for example, implicitly assume that Adam Smith's self-interest is the greed that promotes...American culture, but the association of Adam Smith with these views is simply wrong. Smith...

Adam Smith claimed by the Left

The Scotsman;  April 26, 2002 ;     345 words ...GORDON Brown sought to claim Adam Smith, the 18th century author of the Wealth of...the question I think we've got to ask, is Adam Smith, the author of The Invisible Hand, also the Adam Smith who believes in the helping hand? "Would...

Numbers add up for tribute to legacy of Adam Smith

Evening News - Scotland;  June 11, 2008 ;     438 words ...AN annual Adam Smith day is set to be staged in the Capital...in Parliament Square on July 4. The Adam Smith Institute - the authoritative research...annual re-dedication of the new statue. "Adam Smith has an enormous international fan club...

Janet Adam Smith

The Scotsman;  September 14, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Janet Adam Smith, author, literary editor, journalist Born...September, 1999, in London, aged 93 JANET Adam Smith was born into the old Scots intellectual elite. Her father, Sir George Adam Smith, was a Biblical scholar, Professor of Old...

Study Adam Smith to solve crisis, Chirac told

Scotland on Sunday;  November 27, 2005 ;     323 words ...JACQUES Chirac should study Adam Smith to solve the growing cultural crisis...they really come to believe in them. "Adam Smith should not just be read by emerging democracies...Chirac." Dr Madsen Pirie, president of the Adam Smith Institute, said: "If the French paid...

Adam Smith with spin Noel Malcolm is impressed, if not entirely convinced,...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment by Emma Rothschild...353 pp pounds 28.95 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 WOULD ADAM SMITH have been reluctant to join the Adam Smith Institute - the adventurous Right-wing think-tank...